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thank you so much for being here. I've been looking forward to this interview for so long. I know we tried to make it work with my last interview batch week, and we couldn't and so I'm super pumped to have you here today. Go ahead and introduce yourself to anyone who might not know you yet. Yes, same. Well,
thank you so much for having me. I'm glad we were able to make this work. And I got in on your amazing batching schedule. So hello. For anybody that doesn't know me. I'm Bree. I'm a coach for female bloggers and entrepreneurs. I'm also the host of the Thrive blogger podcast so you guys can listen over there as well. And then other than that, yeah, I have a personal Instagram where I share a lot of real life, I talked about mental health and try to be a source where people can find joy and peace in the midst of social media chaos, and
also just an all around great person to know. So everyone should definitely go check out her podcast and follow her on Instagram. But I know that one of the things that you help your students and your clients do is get strategic, not only with their goals, but also with their revenue streams. And I would love to hear you talk about the connection point between those two a little bit, because I think that's something that we can overlook, we can set goals that maybe are arbitrary or unrealistic, and that aren't really connected with the revenue streams that we have or where we actually are in our business and where we're trying to go. So I would love to hear you touch on that a little bit.
Absolutely. I would love to see one of my favorite things to talk about. And what you said it's absolutely true. And it's I think it's because we sat down whether it's at the beginning of the year beginning of the quarter, or we're just like feeling inspired and feeling like hey, I need to get it together a little bit more And so we start to just start write down goals. So like, oh, I want to hit this, or I want to make this amount of money, or I want to do this, and I want to do that. That's all great. I'm all for like taking your inspiration and running with it. But the problem I see happen is that if we're just doing that, and we're not analyzing where our money is coming from analyzing what is currently working, and really deep dive into where our time is going, and how that translates to the income that's actually hitting our bank account, because at the end of the day, if we're spending all of our time and setting these goals on these things that aren't actually helping our bank account, why are we doing it? I mean, you know, we have our passion projects, and we have these different things that feel our why. And I understand that. But at the end of the day, we're running a business, right. And so we need to be strategic about all of that. And so before we set goals, there's just a few steps that I like to kind of run through, as we're doing them to make sure that we're setting really smart goals.
And so the steps you're looking at what's bringing in money currently, what's not? What else do what are those steps? Yeah.
So the first thing is just like analyzing, so really looking at what is working in your business? Where is the money coming from? And then how much time do you have to work on these tasks. So really, like taking the time to like, pull out a fresh new Google Sheet, if you need to write everything down? You know, when I start coaching people, we create a roadmap, and I send them this huge, long form. And I'm like, tell me everything, right? Because what I want to do is to analyze what is currently happening in your business. What are your revenue streams right now? What are the percentages? Where's it coming from? And then also, like, what do you love to do? That's one question I asked, What do you really love doing? What do you hate doing? What do you feel like you need to learn? That's all part of analyzing things. And I think too often, we can just get caught up in the nitty gritty, day to day tasks that end up taking all of our time. And sometimes, yes, of course, we're gonna have those days. But sometimes it's like, was that any? Was I doing anything that's actually helping my bottom line, just analyzing all of those little pieces. That's why like to analyze not only where's the money coming from, but also analyzing what you love to do, what you're not loving to do. And then how much time do you have to work on these tasks? I think that is such a huge aspect that entrepreneurs don't look at is the time, they're not looking at how much time I might actually spending on these areas. Looking at the actual breakdown, you know, we hear about burnout all the time, right? And it's because we're spreading ourselves too thin. We're trying to, or at least that's what I'm saying. I don't know about you. But I'm seeing that, like, we're trying to do too many things. We're trying to keep up with what we're seeing on social media, we're trying to keep up with what we're seeing other entrepreneurs doing, not knowing how it's going for them on the back end, right not knowing if they have a team helping them not knowing if they themselves are on the edge of burnout and about to quit. And so it's really analyzing the time aspect of okay, how much time am I spending on actually fulfilling my product? Whether you're a coach or teach on a certain topic or create a product, whatever it may be? How much time are you actually spending on the product? How much time are you spending on all the different aspects of marketing and everything else that goes into it? How much time are you spending, talking with anybody on your team doing all of the quote unquote, CEO tasks of Accounting and Finance and managing and everything else? So that's the first part that's a little long winded, but that's really where I feel like you need to start is just really analyzing everything. Okay,
what would you say to the person who's listening right now and is like, I don't even have anything to analyze, nothing's working. I have not seen any kind of growth. Where do they begin?
I think really in the same spots, even starting with, okay, these are things that I don't love. And these are the things that I do love and maybe I've been putting them on the backburner. Because if you're not seeing that things are working or if you're not loving what you're doing, what are you not letting yourself do? One example for me is I have realized this year that I have put personal creativity on the backburner. I am a very creative, artistic person. I went to school for graphic design. I grew up in my grandma's art studio, playing with paints and all in clay and all these different types of things. I love being creative. I have so many hobbies, you name it and I've done it with that I have kind of stopped myself along the way from doing Yes, some like Hobby things. But even just getting on the computer and doing some graphic design, because I'm like, Oh, I shouldn't be doing that I should be doing this instead. And what I was doing in the process of that, because I was like, Oh, well, I should be spending my time over here instead is I was squashing so much of my creativity. And I think that happens to a lot of entrepreneurs is, whatever is bringing you joy, and whatever is fueling you, sometimes we can see that as a, but that's not really necessary right now. So let me just kind of push that to the side. And so to anybody that's like, feeling like everything is just on fire, and nothing is working, I would say what have you pushed off that you really love doing, because maybe there's some magic there that is missing, and maybe there's a spark in there, that is stopping other things from working.
I think it's funny, because you're such a creative person, and you have a bunch of hobbies. And I on the other hand, and the total opposite. I don't fit. I'm a very like logic like, base person. And I don't have many hobbies, except reading and annoying my cats basically. And this year, I wish that was not true. But this year, I was like I need hobbies, because I can't continue to run my business well, without having something that I'm doing to pour back into me. So I love that you brought that up. Because even though a lot of my hobbies, they they don't they have zero connection to the business. I'm trying to learn how to play piano and things like that, if I don't have that outlet of some sort in my life, everything inside of this office becomes chaos, because
you're not filling your cup, right. And you're just like pouring into your business pouring into your business. And if you're not doing things to shut off at the end of the day, or on the weekend, and I know like we have a lot of side hustlers, I'm sure listening that are like, well, that's when my time to work is. But I still think that there is dedicated time where you're okay, this is my work time. But you also need to prioritize that creative time. And whether it is reading, I think that's a great hobby, I am a huge reader. And or whether it's playing with your cat or sitting outside or going for a walk, those are all hobbies. We don't have to have painting or knitting or you know, whatever it may be like your hobby can be whatever you want it to be just not work.
Well, and I wanted a hobby that I was bad at. Yes. That's something I've noticed as an entrepreneur, I don't like being bad at things. I'm a one, I want things to go exactly as they're supposed to go and to go very smoothly and perfectly. And that's never the case.
So I totally understand that. Yeah, I
mean, it's just, you have to learn, you have to move through the journey. And that's been interesting to pick up a couple of hobbies, that I'm absolutely trash. I like playing golf. I'm god awful. It's really bad. But I get out there and I do it. And I see the small improvements. And as I'm playing, I'm like, wow, this is a lot like business. And it's just a nice juxtaposition to see in my life of like, okay, it's okay to be bad at something. Because there's going to be improvement, even if it's slower growth than maybe I would like it to be, which I think ties right back into this whole conversation of okay, but how do we set goals that are realistic? Because I know that's something that you preach on as well. It's like, okay, but goals have to be realistic. We're not going to jump to six figures in one year. Right. So what would the next step be if we we've done the work to say, Okay, this is what's working, this is what's not, this is what I love doing? What do we do next in order to set some strategic and realistic goals? So
I think the next part is to strategize is to really figure out, Okay, I've looked at everything now, how am I going to spend my time moving forward? What are the things that make sense? Now that I have analyzed things? What are some things that I need to either drop off completely or to really scale back on because it's not bringing me joy, or it's really just not helping us grow? Right? It's not maybe bringing in new members. It's not bringing in new leads. It's not bringing in more income. And so it's really just not working. And I just want to say, That's okay, if you need to stop doing something. That's okay. I have tested so many things over the year. We tried more recently, we tried a Patreon that did that work. We had three people subscribe. And my audience just didn't love it. It wasn't the right thing. So we tried it for a quarter. We tried it for three months. And I was like, you know why? It's just not working. It's not worth putting the energy into right now. Because we're building other revenue streams that are more efficient, and seem to be something our audience loves more. And so while there's kind of like that little hit to your ego, when you have to admit, like, cool, that was not a good plan. There's so many things that you don't know until you try and so uh, allowing yourself to stop doing something is okay. And then figuring out what are the things you need to focus on? And what do you need to let go of? So with an analyzing, again, kind of you've done all the analytics. So now strategizing. Okay, what do I just need to be really real with myself on here, I think that's probably the biggest part of this strategy is you got to take the emotion out of it, you have to look at the data, you have to look at the facts, you have to go back and look at those things that you did that deep dive on, and take the emotion out of it, which is hard, because we're emotional beings, right. But at the end of the day, for growth, we have to do that. And I love that you brought up like the realistic portion of it too, because that is something that I have to kind of check people that I coach on, which is hard, because I'm like, Okay, I'm not trying to squash your dreams, I 100%, we can believe we can hit this number, whatever it is, but let's be let's set some realistic goals here, let's let's try to hit this number this quarter. And then we're going to do an audit. And we're going to revise and we're going to, you know, make some tweaks and changes, and then we're gonna do it again, the next quarter. And we're gonna see that once they do that with me, then they're like, Okay, I see what she means. Now, you know, once they get through that first quarter, they're like, Okay, cool. I, I see what she means by maybe needing to pace myself a little bit. And I really would approach it that way of like, needing to pace yourself needing to go back to you know, preventing yourself from from spreading yourself too thin, prevent burnout. And that's what it is with being realistic. I mean, are you going to get lucky maybe and something takes off and just blows up your numbers? Sure, that could happen. But we can't strategize on that. And
I think so often, when it seems like that's happened to somebody else, it really took months and years of that strategic step by step growth, to really see the quote, unquote, explosion of things. And I love, I love that you, you lay it out as a path to whatever that goal is you want to be on. And it's a journey that is going to take some time. Because I think there is this stigma almost around the idea of goal setting, where if you are not setting these super high goals, it means you don't believe in yourself, and you're never going to hit that goal. And you're, you're stifling yourself. I had a launch goal once and when I set launch goals, you know, I have a good, better best goal, I have one that's realistic that I know I'm probably gonna hit and then I have one that I would like to hit. And then I have another one that's like, this is most likely not going to happen. And I realized that but I'm going to set it anyways. Sure. And I shared on Instagram, that I had this, this best goal, and that if I hit it, my husband so that I could go to Disney, and celebrate. And because that's how I pride myself always for everything. But I shared that and I shared I'm probably not going to hit it. But this is that goal. And if I do I get to like this really cool celebration. And I got so many DMS of people being like, you're never gonna hit goals because you're stifling yourself. And it's like, well, I mean, but there's data behind these goals. I'm not praying for the hat. And so I'm just really glad that you brought it up. Just because you may not hit that goal right now. It doesn't mean we can't work towards it and that you can't get there. It just may not happen as quickly as you would like it to.
And I think there's so many other factors that go into it, that when we're busy setting goals we just completely forget about and ignore. But we just ignore the fact that like, Hey, I could get sick, like I could get COVID Like I recently had COVID I know you recently had COVID Like that knocked me out for a week. So like, boom, there was a week off of work that I had not planned on. There could be something that happens with family, you may need to travel unexpectedly, something may happen. There's things that are going to happen that are unexpected. I feel like if we have learned nothing in the last two years, it's to expect the unexpected in the world right now. And now a quick word from our sponsor, what would happen if you knew where to focus for growth, how to plan to reach your goals and started to get paid for the content you're creating? If you're ready to make money from your brand, want to get started on the right foot and are ready for some serious growth than blogging babe you need to join us inside the profitable blogger society. Inside the profitable blogger society gals are signing contracts for their first four figure brand deals, getting their homes photographed for magazine features creating digital products and doubling their pageviews and email lists. If you're ready for all of that and more and are ready to grow and start making a consistent income from your brand, then you're ready for the profitable blogger society. Our coaches help you know where to focus to grow, support you with the custom feedback and advice you need and provide you a trainings like SEO simplified and how to grow your email list. If you're ready to get started, which I think you are head to thrive together dot blog slash PBS to learn more and enroll today. Because blogging babes something happens when you decide to just go for it. We can't wait to support you and help you grow thrive together dot blog slash P B S. When we set goals, we don't factor those parts in. We also don't consider like, how do I want my life to actually be. And I think that's something you know, a conversation that I have with friends is like, this is great. And like, yes, I want to hit a certain financial income, I want to hit a point where I have people on my team supporting me. So I'm working a lot less. Absolutely, I have huge, audacious goals just like everybody else. But I'm not going to sacrifice my mental health, my day to day life, my love of travel and downtime with my husband. Because of those things. Some other people are going to be in different situations, and they're gonna be in a season of hustle. And I've been in those seasons of hustle before I was there at the beginning of this year where I did have to sacrifice time, but that should not be the norm. And so we need to also ask for setting these goals. Make sure Okay, cool Am I able to work a realistic amount of time going back to that being realistic with ourselves? Am I still going to enjoy my evenings or my weekends, I'm going to still going to be able to travel or spend time with my family, and not experience, you know, burnout or guilt because I'm not doing other things because prioritizing hobbies, right prioritizing, spending time with friends, all of that is important to living a well rounded life. And at the end of the day, if all we're focused on is cranking out things with our business, and being in a hustle season for that lasts over a year. Why are we even doing this, like so many of us go into entrepreneurship, wanting more freedom and flexibility in our lives, but end up creating goals and schedules for ourselves that are the opposite of that.
I love it so much. And I love that you brought up the mental health aspect of this because two totally different people can hit the same goal in two totally different ways. And it'll feel completely different today, when people can say I want to make $25,000 This year in my bank account. And one of them can work non stop and be in total hustle mode, and it can feel and they can set goal a goal even higher than that maybe maybe they say their goal is 30,000. But they end up hitting 25,000. And they get to the end of the year. And they're really unhappy because they didn't have that 30,000. And because they work so hard all year to quote unquote, Nazi results. On the other hand, you've got someone who is allowing that space for travel and time with loved ones, and hobbies and just to home off in general, because that's okay. And they hit that 25,000. And they're really excited about it because they hit their goal. And they had sustainability within that goal to actually enjoy their life. And these people are hitting the same number for the end of the year. But one person is really upset about it. And one person is really thrilled and grateful for it. And it makes all the difference in the world when it comes to setting goals. Because if you're not realistic, it's really going to have a huge impact on your mental health.
Well, I think as I think we're seeing a shift in society in general, right? Where we're finally millennials and Gen Z, like we're looking at things and being like, I don't want to do that, right? Or like, Okay, I could make this much money, but I'm sacrificing this. And so like, Is that worth it. And I think I've just hit a point where I'm like, sacrificing my mental health is not worth it. But but not only that, I don't think we fully understand how important spending time outside of work helps our work. Because if you're constantly burning the light at both ends, and because I know if I work all day long, maybe take a break for dinner, half an hour off or whatever, hit it again. And then I'm working until I go to bed. I have the hardest time going to sleep. I don't sleep good at night, because I feel stressed and it goes throughout the night. And until I toss and turn, I wake up exhausted until the next day, I am not nearly as productive. And if we do that too long, you can just see how your productivity is actually going down. I know you are like the queen of batching. And but like that is why I am such a huge proponent of batching too, because when you're hyper focused on one thing, and then give yourself breaks, you're able to be so much more productive and get so much more done in a smaller chunk of time. And so when we prioritize letting our brains have a Break, letting us go and spend time with family stopping work early or just stopping work at a normal hour. That helps your productivity so much more than I think we fully acknowledge
can not only your productivity, but your creativity, your your strategic thinking, being able to play the long game in your business and think 10 steps ahead, you can't do that. If you're burnt out, you're in survival mode. So all all the way around with every skill you need as a business owner, giving yourself those breaks and building in that sustainability. may call it there difference to see growth in your business. Yeah. And
then after that analyzing strategizing, is really just optimizing everything from there. It's like, okay, cool, now that I've strategized, like, what I'm going to let go, what I'm going to focus on where I'm going to spend my time moving forward, cool. Now optimize those systems. what systems do you need to put in place? So things run efficiently? What needs tweaking to perform a little bit better? Is it do you need to like maybe tweak your messaging? Do you need to do some message mining and talk to your audience? Is your stuff visible? I've had that issue before where somebody goes to my site, a friend, I'll go to my site, the library, I don't even see this and like, Oh, crap, I don't even didn't even think about that. And like, yeah, it's not visible, you can't see it, looking at those things. And just really optimizing everything you're doing, which I've been kind of I worked on over the summer is just like, cool. It's like the summer of housekeeping. And like, there was some opt ins that we needed to create, there were some things we needed to do with our email list. Different things like that, just to optimize, so things work better. Because I'm like, I just want to work smarter, and I don't want to work harder, like I truly believe in that thing. And sometimes when I feel like I'm working too hard, I have to stop. And I need to be like, Okay, I'm gonna go back to analyze, how can I work better? How can I work smarter? How can I strategize to do that, and then just keep optimizing?
I love that you bring this up, because I think this is the least thought about part of not only setting goals, but also just in business in general. So often, you see people that set this product up, and they're really pumped about it, and then they do their launch, or whatever they do to get it out there, they get it visible, and it doesn't convert quite as well as they wanted it to. And so leave it, they leave it they throw it away, or they just leave it on the website, and they never look at it again. When in actuality, if you're getting sales, that's proof of concept, how can we optimize it. And I think it feels so much better to be working on something new, because it is exciting. But then we just have a business that has way too much going on. And nothing is optimized. And we're working really hard to get all of those pieces to produce, when actually simpler would be better and do less things and just keep working on improving them and improving them and improving them. And yeah, I just want everyone that's listening to remember that no matter where you start, you can keep improving it and optimizing it to see more improvements in the future.
What kind of goes back to you're talking about golf, right, and you're talking about how you need to keep practicing to get better. And so when you take up a new thing, right, you take up a new course and you launch it, and then you just leave it or are unhappy with the results. You I had a friend this year give me the best advice that was launching a new program. I was a little nervous about it because I had never offered something at that high of a ticket before. And I your first instinct is to set some goals, right like good, better best for launching. But it was something I had never tried with my audience before. And she said Bree, you need to make your goal to get a baseline. That's your goal. Your goal is not a number, your goal is not a certain amount of signups, your goal is literally to do the entire launch to put yourself out there and to get a baseline. If you get zero signups that's your baseline. If you get four signups that's your baseline, you're not setting a number for yourself that you're gonna, so you're going to fail. If it's zero, that's just your baseline. And from there, you learn from the data. you survey your audience, you talk to them, what landed with them, what didn't work, the people that bought Why did they buy, you know, what is really helping them? What have the messaging really spoke to them. So optimizing that completely and when she gave me that advice, like huge stress off of my shoulders, I approached that launch so differently, and just with more energy, really focusing on my mental health as I went into it of it's just a baseline. It doesn't matter whether this succeeds or fails or whatever, does not mean that I'm succeeding or failing. It's just a good baseline because I want to improve from here. And so Oh, I agree with you, if you just keep launching program after program be like, Oh, that one didn't work. Let me try another one. Oh, that one didn't work. Let me try another one. You're spreading yourself so thin, you're gonna burn out? Instead of telling yourself that one didn't work, be like, Okay, well, that's my baseline. Let me talk to my audience. Let me tweak it, let me see. Because I know that nine times out of 10, anybody that creates a product, it's good, you guys are good. You guys are brilliant. You guys have this magic spark, and you're so good at what you do. So the product that you created is not bad. Maybe you're just not the best at figuring out how to talk to your audience, which is okay, like, we don't have to be good at everything. I'm not good at everything. And like, again, that's another blow to the ego, right is thinking, Oh, well, I'm not good at this, maybe you need to work on some messaging a little bit more, maybe you need to talk to your audience a little bit more, maybe you need to up your graphics a little bit. Maybe something was hard to find. Maybe they were you launched it in the summertime and everybody was out on vacation, maybe need to launch at a different time of year. It's just spending time optimizing, don't drop that awesome thing that you built.
I love that so much. And I think that's such an important message for everyone to hear. Because, yeah, there was any launch with any promotion, there are 2000 million, whatever things that could affect it, whether that's internal or even external. Again, as we've learned in these last few years, expect the unexpected and anything can happen in the world to really mess with the lodge and people just maybe brain wise out of office for the you know, you just never know, there's so many things out effect. And you never know how people are going to react at any given time. I know that over the last few years. You know, I had some great launches, and some are 2020 Because no one could go anywhere. And everyone was at home and they were like, well, we might as well work. That also we're going to do. And then last fall or not last fall. Dates are hard fall 2021. I had some terrible launches. And fall typically is a great time to launch things. But everyone was finally vaccinated and ready to travel and tired of being home. And so the fall no one was they weren't no one was paying attention to what
was SPA was weird.
That was so bizarre. But so you just never know you can do everything right. And it might not go well. So I love I love the mindset shift of this is just the baseline, even if it's zero sales, it's just the baseline. And there are ways to tweak and improve so that it's incredible. So we we analyze, we strategize. We optimize? Where do we take the goals? Once we have them set? As far as what do we? How do we keep on front of mind? How do we make sure that we're sticking to those goals maybe and not veering off into new projects or getting distracted throughout the year? What does that look like?
I think it just I don't have mine, like written out in front of me, I have like certain things that I know that I'm working towards and optimizing things based on that. But I think it is constantly checking in with yourself. And also having a good support system, like I would not be where I am today without my business besties. And they often will check me so I'm not the type of person who just like, I'm going to start this new thing. And I hit the ground running and I don't run it by anybody. I just don't do that I and I run it by people, I have forced myself to slow down, think it through. And before I start taking action steps, and that's been something I've had to learn. Because if you had asked me this four years ago, I'm typical Enneagram three, and I'm like, Cool. Well, I could get that up and running in a week. Let's go, I have learned that that's not good for my mental health. That's not good for my day to day life. And so I have forced myself to slow down and analyze anything before I add it on. And that's been something I think with goal setting, in general that I have learned over the years is we think we can hit it faster if we just work harder. And if we move quickly, and it just every single time it leads to burnout. And so there is something special about growing slow and purposefully. Because again, you're able to optimize things more, you're able to spend more time talking to your audience, you're able to listen to your audience more and hear what they're saying and hear what is working for them. And those are the things that set you apart and help you with reaching your goals. So yes, it's keeping them front of mind there's going to be certain things and certain numbers you want to hit. Absolutely. And that's great. But just being really realistic with yourself and being like okay, that's a right to slow down a little bit. What is the it It's hard because of course, we want to make more money, we want to do all these things. But again, is this living the life that you want? So
good such a such an important question that continuously be asking yourself, if you were to give the listeners one action step to take away from this episode, what would it be, I
would say, to analyze where your time is being spent? And does it make sense compared to where your revenue is coming from? So yes, I think when you do that, you'll be surprised at where you're wasting time, or not even wasting time where you think you're spending time in a good spot, but is actually not helping along the way. And
then we end every episode with a book recommendation. So it can be business related, or it can be just a fiction book that you love or anything in between. But what is one book that you would recommend for everyone to go read? Okay,
can I actually share too? Yeah, I like I said at some point in this episode, I love reading. I'm a huge reader. So for fun, the one that came to mind is a Girl's Guide to love and supper clubs by Dana Bates. I read this years and years ago, I have read it multiple times. It's just it's so fun and light hearted if you love if you're a foodie, if you like a little bit of romance, like it's fantastic will make you want to go to or start a supper club. And then the other one that's more a little bit more serious, I think for like self improvement is I'm currently reading think like a monk by Jay Shetty. And I'm really enjoying it. Just, again, like taking care of yourself, evaluating what's going on with your mental health and living your best life.
So yeah, awesome. Both of those I haven't read so that's exciting. To go check those out. Brady, thank you so much for being here today. Where is the best place for people to find you if they want to connect?
Yeah, over on Instagram. My handle is Bree with two E's pair. Pa i are
perfect. And we'll have all of Brees information linked in the show notes so be sure to check that out friends. Thank you, Bree.
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